Serious Zen

Here’s a small section from Steve McCaffery’s 1970-1975 “multi-panel language environment” entitled Carnival:

You can check out the fully assembled version of this panel, as well as the 1967-1970 panel, here.
Attempting to transcend the boundaries of concrete poetry, McCaffery claims that the panel approaches the sacred by virtue of its mandala-like qualities. Of course, in […]